How to format your references using the Hereditas citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hereditas. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Serrano M. Cancer: final act of senescence. Nature. 2011;479:481–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cho NW, Greenberg RA. DNA repair: Familiar ends with alternative endings. Nature. 2015;518:174–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mayberry RI, Lock E, Kazmi H. Linguistic ability and early language exposure. Nature. 2002;417:38.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sundar VC, Zaumseil J, Podzorov V, Menard E, Willett RL, Someya T, et al. Elastomeric transistor stamps: reversible probing of charge transport in organic crystals. Science. 2004;303:1644–6.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Kovalev VA. Solutions in Lidar Profiling of the Atmosphere. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Crockett LJ, Carlo G, editors. Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States: Theory, Research, and Applications. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Su B, Xu Q, Xiao P. Finding the Anti-block Vital Edge of a Shortest Path Between Two Nodes. In: Dress A, Xu Y, Zhu B, editors. Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: First International Conference, COCOA 2007, Xi’an, China, August 14-16, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 11–9.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Hereditas.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. New magnetic cycle of the Sun has begun as its magnetic field “flips upside down.” IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Online Access to Legislative Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981 Mar. Report No.: 115068.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Teeter CM. Characterizing the Spatial Density Functions of Neural Arbors [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Edge JT. The Hidden Radicalism of Southern Food. New York Times. 2017 May 6;SR1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Hereditas
Abbreviation	Hereditas
ISSN (online)	1601-5223
Scope	Genetics General Medicine

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